Windows Vista is the first general purpose consumer-grade OS that provides transactional support (ACID) for file IO and Windows Registry modification operations (these are only two of the consumers of KTM - point is, you are enabled to write your own).
In this interview, we meet Jon Cargille, the…

There has been a large amount of confusion and concern out there about Vista's new user security model (Everybody runs as Standard User, a new user account security construct, UAC, acts as gatekeeper of process security boundaries - a doorway to process
security context elevation). Users should be…

On May 4th, 2006, Steve Ball invited
Robert Fripp back to the Microsoft campus for a second full day of work on Windows Vista following up on his
first visit in the Fall of 2005. This time we get an even deeper glimpse into the creative process as the Windows Product team continued to refine…

One of the characteristics of a great general purpose operating system is simply being reliable - limiting user disruptions. Windows Vista is our most reliable OS to date. How can we say this? Well, this is Vista Week on Channel 9 and here we take this broad
question to the development manager…

By now, most of you know Tim Sneath, a technical evangelist in DPE (The organization in which Channel 9 resides) as Dr Sneath. There's a reason we call him doctor. He knows a LOT about Windows and other Microsoft
technologies. So, you've seen his interviews for Channel 9. Now, as part of
Vista…

Sometimes problems occur (system or application level exceptions happen, applications might crash, hard disks fail) in complicated systems like modern personal computers.
In Vista, the system is capable of understanding a wide variety of problems as they occur and, in many cases, fix them without…

"Time Warp" is an awfully cool code name, but an even cooler file system technology that's part of Vista. So cool in fact, that I am taking the chance of getting yelled at for revealing it here as it's frowned upon (typically) to use code names
for products that have already shipped...…

Welcome to Vista Week on Channel 9. For 9 days (that's one Channel 9 week) we will be focusing our content on the newest general purpose operating system from Microsoft, Windows Vista. Windows Vista was designed from the ground up with the user in mind.
From reliability, performance, security,…

I'm deeply fascinated by software instrumentation in all its varieties. When Scott Dart
told me that he had hard data on how many people are using the tagging features in Photo Gallery, I wanted to know how. The answer is
SQM, which is pronounced "squim" and which expands to Software…

Jason Seuss sits down with Channel 10 and gives us all the info on the new announcements for Media Center. Media Center has matured a lot in the last year, now we can use digital inputs and extenders like an Xbox 360 to access your Media Center content. Update: The downloadable versions are live.…